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Posted on 07/28/2014 6:42:30 AM PDT by YourAdHere
Edited on 07/28/2014 7:18:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
NEW YORK (AP)
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What happened to the man was wrong. Sharpton is only showing up for a payday.
If he just let the cops cuff him, we wouldn’t be discussing this at all.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder also has said the Justice Department is “closely monitoring” the investigation into Garner’s death. .................... Oh hummmm. What a surprise.
the police are effing idiots, why don’t they go arrest some real criminals instead of some poor schlunk hawking cigarettes
Are you saying that police murdering a man for contempt of cop is OK?
No, I am saying a person who doesn’t comply with a police officer’s directive, plays a part in whatever injury occurs after the fact. That’s what COURT is for. How were the cops supposed to know if he didn’t have a weapon? Take his word for it, hmm?
I’ve kinda noticed that almost all news organization now leave off how Eric Garner came to meet up with the cops, and how the scene developed.
To put it in the right perspective....Eric had dealings with cheap cigarette sales (NO-New York City taxation). Brought in from Indian reservation sales or cheap cigarette taxation states (West Virginia at 55 cents a pack and North Carolina at 45 cents a pack)...it’s a simple act to take $10,000...cross the border...buy bulk...drive back and sell smokes on the streets of New York City at $1 to $2 off the normal street cost (note, for this argument, NYC smokes tax is $4.35).
While arrested before...Eric has yet to ever be convicted. You can figure various reasons....lack of prosecution capability....weak judge...limited evidence...etc.
So, the cops came around Eric on this occasion....wanted him to cooperate for another arrest, and Eric declined. He just wasn’t going to cooperate with the cops. No one wanted to use the Taser on the guy...so they went to the old method of the chock-hold....note: illegal by city standards via cops since 1993. Eric was a 350-lb guy....an asthmatic....probably not in good shape....and died because of events that he triggered and the cops simply wandered into.
The city will fire the cop involved....pay off the wife with something like $1 million, and some city hall guy will gift Eric Garner with a statue in the middle of town....probably with a pack of smokes in his pocket as a symbol of nature and it’s unpleasant epic endings.
Yeah....a guy just surviving off the street....selling cheapo smokes and cheating the city out of taxes.
My general take? I think the cops will refuse to handle any cigarette tax situation for the next year or two in retribution. The city audit guys will complain over too many North Carolina smokes in New York City, and comedians will talk of the unfairness of this whole thing. Life in the big city.
Because the real criminals might react violently?
Note that the officer's forearm is across his windpipe.
The approved hold has the windpipe in the crook between the forearm and bicep. Simply flexing the muscles cuts off the blood flow through the carotid arteries, producing unconsciousness in seconds without the person panicking from being choked.
This officer knows this. This office has been trained to do this.
He chose to slowly and painfully choke out and terrorize a known asthmatic.
I'd call that terrorism, torture and murder under color of authority.
The man was alive. The police cuffed him and decked him. Now he is dead. And you are licking the boots that will eventually kick you in the head.
The problem here is that the officers neglected to say at the appropriate moment, “I felt threatened.” If they had said the formula all this would have gone away already. The officers would be enjoying their richly deserved extra paid vacation and Al Sharpton probably wouldn’t have seen a handle to grab.
He might have some sort of weapon or a cellphone that we can designate as a weapon somewhere on his body so we had better kill him.
He was cuffed AFTER being taken to the ground. AFTER refusing to be cuffed. Have you seen the video? Jesus,.
I know! If he’d just let them have their way......
Yeah, that’s it...
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